Word: paces
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fields, who once complained that someone had put pineapple juice in his "pineapple juice" (an oversize shaker of martinis), would be horrified. America is tapering off, and doing so at a faster pace than at any time since Prohibition took effect in 1920. In restaurants, at country clubs and wedding receptions, and even on the screen, it is increasingly difficult to find anyone with a stiff drink in his hand. Sighs Restaurateur Duke Zeibert, who recently began carrying Moussy nonalcoholic beer from Switzerland at his famed Washington watering hole: "I'm from the old school of Scotch and soda...
...acceptable, but as the play wears on the over-acting wears thin and the over-Oxbridge intonations make Coward's dry witticisms positively and Coward's eternally fresh wit is enough to sustain interest, but one almost wishes a kid from Brooklyn would wander in for a change of pace. Something more in the way of contrast is needed; Lisa Peers, as the straightforward cockney maid, comes close to fitting the bill...
...squad journeyed to Myrtle Beach, S.C. for spring training, a first for the batswomen. After breaking out to a 5-0 start, the Crimson kept up the pace over the course of the crammed season (25 games in 32 days) to finish 17-8, a new season-high for victories...
...most successful Crimson squad in the five-year history of the softball program, a squad whose statistical pace-setters will still be around for the next couple of seasons...
...feature-length portrait of his father from interviews, film clips and family memorabilia (including some riveting home- away-from-home movies of the Allied landing in Normandy, which Senior filmed at the request of General Eisenhower). The chronicler has his father's sharp eye and leisurely sense of pace; he takes his time telling a story that means much to him. The perspective is both judicious and adoring, as if he were young Brandon de Wilde to his father's Shane. The old pro taught the boy how to shoot and, as this moving biography proves, how to say goodbye...